Douglas Shenson

Dr. Shenson is Associate Professor Adjunct, Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, and Associate Clinical Professor, Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health. Since 2007, Dr. Shenson has directed the Yale School of Medicine's (YSM) course "Populations & Methods: The Application of Epidemiology and Biostatistics to Public Health," which runs over 12-months in the YSM pre-clinical curriculum. Dr. Shenson is also Deputy Leader of the YSM Health Equity Thread, which develops and helps implement curricular content focused on health equity and social justice. Dr. Shenson directs Sickness Prevention Achieved through Regional Collaboration (SPARC), a nonprofit agency dedicated to expanding the population-wide use of disease prevention services. As part of his work at SPARC, Dr. Shenson leads the Vote & Vax program, which is developing and testing a national strategy to provide influenza vaccinations at polling places. Dr. Shenson has led numerous research projects funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to better characterize the provision of vaccinations and cancer screening to older Americans. He is a co-founder of the medical humanitarian organization, Doctors of the World USA (now HealthRight International), and founder of the Human Rights Clinic at Montefiore Medical Center, the first clinic in New York City to attend exclusively to the documentation and service needs of survivors of torture. He is a board member of the International Association for Indigenous Aging (IA2), which focuses on health issues of concern to elder American Indians.